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From: Kevin Havener <kevin.havener@afccc.af.mil>
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Subject: Re: two hard drives, adding OS's
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I just put mine on the primary slave (I think, I have faulty memory,
though).  Yes, I believe thats it, on OS or another sees it as hdc.  I
have both a Linux and a FreeBSD installation on it.  They both boot just
fine.

I think my rationale was that (or so I heard) read/write from channel to
channel are faster than master to slave on the same IDE channel. 
Reasoning that since I do most all of my OS installs from CDROM I wanted
to be able to do it slightly faster.  So until I get another hard drive,
my CDROM is alone on the secondary IDE channel.  This could all be just
hogwash, though.

YMMV
Kevin  

Mark J Tomko wrote:
> 
> I've recently bought another hard drive, which I plan to use to play
> around with FreeBSD 4.0 or Linux or HURD.  I have an existing hard drive
> which is the primary master drive.  My ATAPI CDROM is currently my
> secondary master drive.  Because I need to be able to boot off of the
> new hard drive, does it have to be a master drive?  How should I arrange
> them?
> 
> Mark
> 
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